I know that this looks totally staged, but my daughters really did pull out two chairs to watch our neighbor use his rototiller on his garden. Perhaps the fact that we don’t own a television has something to do with their fascination in things like this. Let’s just say, though, that […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
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The area covered by the Cinque Terre National Park includes a number of even smaller towns up above the coastline that give a totally different sense of coastal Mediterranean life. Places like Campiglia, San Bernardino, and Volastra. Far from the madding crowds, these tiny hamlets offer spectacular views of the […]
With the arrival of the first nice weather and the first important holidays (Easter on April 20th, Liberation Day, the 25th of April; May Day on May 1st) the people have started to pour into Levanto. The first wave of tourists is always a great pleasure here, a promise of […]
I take a lot of inspiration from my neighbor Antonio, not only because he gardens what for me would be an impossibly large plot with graceful, effortless ease, but because I have also seen the results of his efforts. No matter what my tomatoes or yellow peppers look like, they […]